1. Developing SOA Applications with Oracle SOA Suite
  2. Advanced Topics
  3. Managing Large Documents and Large Numbers of Instances
  4. Best Practices for Handling Large Documents
  5. Use Cases for Handling Large Documents
  6. Passing Binary Objects as Base64-Encoded Text in XML Payloads
  7. Opaque Passed by File/FTP Adapters

Opaque Passed by File/FTP Adapters

In this use case, the binary attachments (for example, an image) are Base64-encoded as text and then passed inline in the XML document. Table 52-3 provides details.

Table 52-3 Capabilities

Capability Description

Security

Not supported.

Filter/Transformation/Assign

Pass through.

Fanout

Supported.

Binding

Adapter encodes it to Base64 format.

Oracle BPEL Process Manager/Oracle Mediator

Supported. Opaque content cannot be manipulated in an assign or a transform activity.